Attack Orders in Simultaneous Play

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I've been playing a Simultaneous mode game with a friend here at work (SEIV Gold). Came across some problems.

With ships: Telling them to attack (seek after) results in them not doing anything if over a planet. If you tell them to move 1 square off, THEN seek, it seems to work. (I won't get into the "seek" itself, but it is annoying to see the enemy cruise on by because of the pathing)

With drones: (this bugs me a lot) I had one system that I tried defending with 30+ planet launched drones. After launching them, I found I had to target each drone individually. Not a big deal. Of course, next turn I find that none of the drones moved at all! I think it's the same bug as ships, but there's ONLY an attack command for drones. Needless to say, all my drones appear useless unless he goes for the planets (only half have the drones though).

I guess I'm wondering if anyone else has run into this and if there's a workaround/fix. Or maybe I'm just missing an important step.